Publishing stereotypes and false narratives raises concerns that the BBC is tone deaf to the racism and misinformation conveyed by its foreign correspondents.
If journalists and social media users read the policy statement carefully, they would’ve realized that “foreigners holding current, resident visas will be allowed back into Japan,...
Just the fax, ma’m, just the facts. Will the Washington Post ever do actual research for its articles?
Despite repeated statements about Japan being the linchpin of U.S. Asian policy, that is not indicated by the nomination of Rahmbo Emanuel as ambassador.
As with most serious subjects, suicide requires knowledge that the typical generalist journalist does not have. When this is combined with stereotypical beliefs about Japan and...
Japanese corporations should avoid advertising in the WaPo. The large fraction of its readers with hostile attitudes toward Japan and the Japanese is not likely to...
Shortly before the Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo closed on August 31, Motoko Rich expressed an interest in the closing on Twitter. Since I myself...
After more than a decade of creeping up from a historical low of 1.26 in 2005, the Japanese fertility rate has once again started declining....
Listen in as the JAPAN Forward editorial team discusses our latest Mythbusters articles on foreign media misperceptions of Japan with author Prof. Earl Kinmonth. ...
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, foreign commentators have been ridiculing the Japanese people for reliance on retro technology and clinging to supposedly outdated business practices. Oddly,...
On May 23, Hana Kimura, a member of the cast for the Fuji Television series Terrace House distributed by Netflix, was found dead in her Tokyo...
In the two decades I taught my course “Japan in the Foreign Imagination” at Keio and other Japanese universities, I came to stress that most...